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• Question 6May/June 2026, paper 21Structured12 marks

  Fence parts are manufactured by a number of similar machines. The length of the part must fall within a certain range. Parts not within the length range are rejected.

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• Question 4Oct/Nov 2025, paper 21Structured9 marks

  A program contains a global 1D array Number consisting of 20 elements of type REAL A procedure Store() will input a sequence of up to 20 real values, one value at a time.

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• Question 3Oct/Nov 2024, paper 21Structured9 marks

  3 An algorithm will output the last three lines from a text file Result.txt The lines need to be output in the same order as they appear in the file. Assume: • Three variables LineX, LineY and LineZ will store the three lines.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2023, paper 21Structured19 marks

  A class of students are developing a program to send data between computers. Many computers are connected together to form a wired network. Serial ports are used to connect one computer to another.

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• Question 3May/June 2026, paper 22Structured6 marks

  3 A computer game uses a text file named WordList.txt containing 10000 words, all in lower case. Each word is unique and is stored on a separate line of the text file. An efficient algorithm is needed to check that a word input by the user is stored in WordList.txt.

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• Question 3Oct/Nov 2025, paper 22Structured10 marks

  A text file OldFile.txt contains IDs, names and email addresses for members of a club. Three information items are stored for each member and each item is stored on a separate line.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2024, paper 21Structured15 marks

  8 An exam paper has a maximum of 75 marks. One of five pass grades (A to E) is assigned, depending on the mark obtained. The lowest mark for a given grade is known as the grade boundary.

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• Question 6Oct/Nov 2023, paper 22Structured9 marks

  A procedure CreateFiles() will take two parameters: • a string representing a file name • an integer representing the number of files to be created.

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• Question 5May/June 2026, paper 23Structured11 marks

  Data is stored about people who have attended a job interview. Each interview is held at one of three office locations.

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2025, paper 23Structured8 marks

  A program contains a global 1D array of type STRING containing 65 elements. An existing text file is used to store the data in the array. Only non-blank elements (those that do not contain an empty string) are written to the text file.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2024, paper 22Structured18 marks

  A program is being developed to implement a game for up to six players. During the game, each player assembles a team of characters. At the start of the game there are 45 characters available.

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• Question 8Oct/Nov 2025, paper 23Structured20 marks

  A program is being developed to manage student book loans from a college library. The programmer has defined a record type to define each loan.

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• Question 8May/June 2023, paper 21Structured21 marks

  A computer shop assembles computers using items bought from several suppliers. A text file Stock.txt contains information about each item.

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• Question 7May/June 2025, paper 21Structured18 marks

  A program is being developed to implement a customer loyalty scheme for a coffee shop.

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• Question 8May/June 2024, paper 21Structured15 marks

  A teacher is designing a program to process pseudocode projects written by her students. Each student project is stored in a text file. The process is split into a number of stages.

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• Question 3May/June 2023, paper 22Structured10 marks

  A program stores data in a text file. When data is read from the file, it is placed in a queue. The diagram below represents an Abstract Data Type (ADT) implementation of the queue.

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• Question 5May/June 2025, paper 22Structured12 marksHas a diagram

  An automated digital camera system is used to take a sequence of pictures of animals in a garden. During the design of the system, a state-transition diagram is produced.

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• Question 6May/June 2024, paper 22Structured10 marks

  A music player stores music in a digital form and has a display which shows the track being played. Up to 16 characters can be displayed.

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• Question 4May/June 2025, paper 23Structured8 marks

  A programmer is developing a new stock control program for a shop owner to produce sales reports. A text file Sales.txt stores strings representing the number of items sold. The file contains 52 lines, each representing the number of items sold in each week of the year.

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• Question 3May/June 2023, paper 23Structured11 marks

  A program processes data using a stack. The data is copied to a text file before the program ends. The following diagram shows the current state of the stack.

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• Question 8May/June 2024, paper 23Structured15 marks

  A teacher is designing a program to process pseudocode projects written by her students. The program analyses a student project and extracts information about each module that is defined (each procedure or function).

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• Question 8May/June 2023, paper 23Structured19 marks

  A computer shop assembles desktop computers, using items bought from several suppliers. A text file Stock.txt contains information about each item.

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• Question 1May/June 2024, paper 42Structured22 marks

  A program outputs a main word. The program asks the user to enter the different words of 3 or more letters that can be made from the letters in the main word. These are called the answers.

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• Question 10May/June 2023, paper 31Structured5 marks

  The pseudocode algorithm shown copies an active accounts text file ActiveFile.txt to an archive accounts text file ArchiveFile.txt, one line at a time.

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• Question 1May/June 2023, paper 41Structured18 marks

  A program reads data from a file and searches for specific data. The main program needs to read 25 integer data items from the text file Data.txt into a local 1D array, DataArray Write program code to declare the local array DataArray Save your program as Question1_J2023.

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